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From our front-page news: Popular UK-based notebook manufacturer Rock has gone into administration and appointed Deloitte & Touche LLP to help sell the company. In a notice on their website, Rock points out that part of the reason for failure is due to "the cash flow difficulties faced as a...

Sam was retrieving a rugby ball on the bridge near his home in Wigan on Thursday evening when a charge leapt from overhead powerlines into the steel toecaps of his boots. He was knocked unconscious by the fall and all his clothes were burned off. After paramedics arrived Sam regained...

From our front-page news: Just two days ago we were wishing Wolfenstein 3D a happy 16th birthday, so it seems appropriate that another old-school 3D-shooter has a new title announced. id Software has just announced Doom 4, a follow-up to Doom 3, which was a follow-up to Doom 2. From what I...

From our front-page news: Most of you who visit this site are hardware enthusiasts, and picking out a new GPU, CPU or any other piece of computer hardware is not likely too much of a hassle. But that's because you know what to look for. You read reviews, like the ones here. You study up on...

From our front-page news: Popular office suite OpenOffice.org has just released it's first 3.0 public beta, and Ars Technica takes a quick look. The new version revamps the application as a whole, updating the look and feel, and essentially making it more of a competitor to Microsoft's Office...

X48 is new, but there are many boards already begging for your dollars. We are taking a look at the most robust of them all, the P5E3 Premium, which includes built-in WiFi, a great board design and fantastic overclocking abilities. It would almost be a perfect board if it weren't for the $375...

I bought it because I love adding consoles and games to my collection of consoles and games I'll never find time to use.

ashere65, your head explode yet?

That will be one heck of an upgrade. Like I said... I love this card, and I'm not sure if it's just me or not, but the 9600 GT doesn't seem to get the recognition it deserves. Being able to run almost any game at 2560x1600 speaks to its value. As for not mentioning a specific deal, I don't like...

Hmm, that's a good question. I'll see if Matt still has this kicking around and ask him. As for the higher-end models, they do have more pressure-points, but for many people it might not be such a big deal. They might be more useful to those who spend days, not hours, on art. Well to be...

Even at these prices, I have no idea who "needs" them. They use less power and are faster, but I'm wondering how much less power it uses that it would improve laptop battery life to the point of it becoming worthwhile? Hard drives in notebooks don't use that much power to begin with, it's...

You make a good point, and one I should have mentioned there. I haven't overclocked all the boards I have here, but neither of the two X48 boards I've tested so far have been able to hit 500MHz. It might very well be the CPU though, so I'm going to chuck the E8400 in there later and see if the...

So you're not much of a fan? :-/

That kind of thing amazes me... I guess the fact is that there are a lot of people are around, are you really going to rip off an honest store in front of heaps of people? Some would of course, but there are idiots everywhere.

It could be something like that, but would they sell tires designed for the car if they could potentially explode under normal conditions? Normal as in 200+MPH being normal, since that's what the car can do. Luckily, no one anywhere would be able to keep one of these at top speed for that...

The fact that you watch Regis & Kelly makes me wonder about you, Matt ;-) I agree, Yahoo! got greedy and are now kicking themselves in the ass. Yahoo!'s stock went sky-high with first mention of the potential buyout, while Microsoft's stock plummeted. Interesting how that works. Who else is...

From our front-page news: As soon as I saw this new tip at the How-To Geek, I knew I had to come post about it. This is a particular issue that I've been annoyed by for as long as I remember using Windows. The issue is simple. You have a huge folder with many files, and you want to copy a...

From our front-page news: Who needs a television when all the drama can be found online? That's what the Microsoft/Yahoo! debacle has been since it began, and it's sure not losing its lustre quite yet. Over the weekend, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, withdrew the bid to acquire Yahoo!, and I...

From our front-page news:Is it just me, or are game companies actually getting more clueless as the days pass? It has to be the case, because I am seeing it with my own eyes. Remember the massive uproar when BioShock shipped with SecuROM? Or how about when the company announced that the sequel...

From our front-page news: Ever wonder why the Xbox 360 replacement hard drives costs so much? There's no doubt you have if you've ever picked one up, since the 20GB model retails for around $90, while the 120GB is twice that. Well, would you believe that it's because they cost that much to make...